ORONO, Maine – The #18 University of Maine men's ice hockey team will close out the 2025-26 regular season with a single game at Vermont on Saturday night.
 
The Black Bears and Catamounts will face off at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 7. The game will air on ESPN+ with an international stream available via Hockey East/Stretch Internet. The game can also be listened to via 92.9 FM in eastern Maine, 100.5 FM in southern Maine, 1310 AM or online at GoBlackBears.com/MIHRadio.

Game 34 | #18 Maine at Vermont
Saturday, March 7, 2026| 7:00 p.m.
Gutterson Fieldhouse | Burlington, Vt.
ESPN+

WHAT'S ON TAP
• The University of Maine men's ice hockey team and the University of Vermont will close out the regular season this weekend with a single game at Gutterson Fieldhouse on Saturday.
• Maine stands at 18-12-3 overall and 12-10-1 in Hockey East play ... Maine is coming off of a weekend sweep of Northeastern to push its unbeaten streak to five games ... the Black Bears picked up a 4-0 win over the Huskies in Portland before grinding out a 3-2 win on Saturday in Lowell, Mass.
• Vermont is 12-20-1 overall and 7-15-1 in Hockey East games ... the Catamounts played two games at Merrimack last weekend, falling 5-2 and battling to a 4-4 tie.
• The Black Bears enter the final week of Hockey East regular season play with the ability to finish anywhere from third to sixth.

A WIN ON SATURDAY WOULD. . .
• Move the Black Bears to 19-12-3 overall on the year and 13-10-1 in the Hockey East standings.
• Bump Maine's record in the all-time series with Vermont to 36-30-9.

SERIES HISTORY vs VERMONT
• Maine holds an overall mark of 35-30-9 in the series with Vermont ... the Black Bears are 15-16-4 on the road against the Catamounts.
• These two teams split a series in Orono back in November, with Maine winning 7-0 on Friday night and Vermont bouncing back to earn a 2-1 win on Saturday night.
• The Black Bears took both meetings during the 2024-25 season, picking up 4-1 and 4-3 wins in Orono.
• Twenty current Black Bears have at least one career point against the Catamounts ... Frank Djurasevic (1-4-5) and Josh Nadeau (3-2-5) are Maine's active scoring leaders against Vermont.
• The Black Bears and Catamounts first met on Feb. 24, 1978 at Gutterson Fieldhouse, with Maine earning a 6-3 win.

ICE CHIPS . . .
• Among all defensemen nationally, Brandon Holt is second in assists (24) and is tied for third in points (30) ... he is third among active Hockey East defensemen in career scoring with 76 points on 18 goals and 58 assists.
• The Black Bears have secured four consecutive 15-win seasons for the first time since the 2003-04 to 2006-07 seasons.
• Maine leads Hockey East with an average of 67.94 shot attempts per game.
• Josh Nadeau has five career four-point games, the most of any active Hockey East player … with 103 career points, Josh Nadeau ranks third among active Hockey East players in career scoring ... he has 44 goals and 59 assists, including 65 power-play goals, eight game-winning goals and three short-handed goals.
• Maine is averaging 3.4 goals per game, good for a tie for 13th in the country and first in Hockey East.
• Frank Djurasevic is tied for 21st in the country and is fourth in Hockey East with a career-high 59 blocks ... he is also fifth among active Hockey East players with 151 career blocked shots.
• With 113 goals scored, Maine has eclipsed 105 goals in the first 33 games of the season for the first time since 2011-12 (118).

UP NEXT
• Maine will learn its postseason seeding for the Hockey East Tournament as results around the league go final throughout the weekend.
• The Black Bears can finish anywhere from third to sixth place in the regular season standings.